Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra

26 MAY 2013 / HOUSE OF ARTS / A concert by the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra

A
concert of the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra will certainly
be one of the biggest events of Košice - European Capital of
Culture 2013. Within its exclusive Czech-Slovak tour, after a
concert in Prague Spring Music Festival, the prominent Japanese
orchestra will perform in Košice with their conductor, Kazuhiro
Koizumi. The soloist in Dvořák‘s violin concert will be violinist
Sayaka Shoji. She conquered the international music scene after her
triumphant victory in the prestige Paganini Competition (1999),
where she won as the only Japanese and, at the same time, the
youngest artist in history. She cooperates with renowned conductors
(Sir Colin Davis, Charles Dutoit, Mariss Jansons, Lorin Maazel, and
others), and she plays with top orchestras from around the world
(Berliner Philharmoniker, Bayerischer Staatsorchester, Israel
Philharmonic Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, St. Petersburg
Philharmonic Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony,
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and many others). The
concert will start with a presentation of a Japanese contemporary
piece: composer Kosaku Yamada’s Overture in D Major. The evening
will culminate after Dvořák‘s violin concert with the magnificent
Fifth Symphony from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

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